Welcome to DC Tech People

The goal of this site is to use data to highlight issues regarding gender and minority inclusion in the Washington DC tech community. Please feel free to extend this project as you see fit-
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Data is updated nightly at about 3:00am EST, at which point the
site may be down or innacurate for about 15min.

Taking a look at AngelList Data

AngelList
is a social network that connects startups with investors. They provide an API to access their data, which we dive into below:

There are
196
people on AngelList who claim to live in the Washington DC region. They have DC listed as either their first or only location.

We use
Genderize.io
to predict if a user is male or female. If their data determines someone's
first name to have a 75% or higher probability of a given gender, we
include them in our analysis.

Genderize.io determined the gender with at least 75% probability for
174
people.

Of the
174
people analyzed,
12 were
female
and
162 were
male
:

We define a leader as someone who has more than 1,000 followers on AngelList.
Of
7
total leaders,
1 was
female
and
6 were
male
:

Moving onto Facebook data

The
DC Tech Facebook Group
is a vibrant, public forum where various people of the #dctech comminity interact.
We use Facebook's API to take a look at its users:

There are
4320
people publicly in the DC Tech Facebook group.

We again use
Genderize.io
in the same manner to predict if a user is male or female because
we do not have full access to their Facebook profile data.

Genderize.io determined the gender with at least 75% probability for
3927
people.

Of the
3927
people analyzed,
1228 were
female
and
2699 were
male
(one icon is equal to 10 people below):